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Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption Dropout rates during the first year are at their lowest for 19 years The dropout rate for students at Scottish universities is the lowest it has been for 19 years. For the first time in a generation, the retention rate for students is better than ...

Image copyright Getty Images The New York Times has corrected an article that mistakenly referred to the Great Depression of the 1930s as “the time of shedding and cold rocks”. One of its editors had installed software that adds references to snakes to websites. The substitution was missed and published ...

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRufaro Chisango recorded the chants while locked in her room in halls Two men have been arrested after a video of racist slurs being shouted in university accommodation emerged. Rufaro Chisango tweeted the video of the abuse which apparently included “we hate ...

The Champions League now has half of its quarterfinalists set in stone as two more clubs reached the last eight on Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know about the day’s action, which saw Juventus go to Tottenham needed a result, and Manchester City comfortably welcoming Basel with a huge ...

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption “Don’t look so worried Dad, it won’t be for long” Adults who move back home after moving away are causing their parents stress and conflict, a study suggests. Parents’ whose adult children move back into the family home saw a decline in their quality ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A group of students from the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people has visited the Sept. 11 museum. About 60 students who are in a band at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School toured the museum Wednesday. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Wind ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The head of the Iditarod’s drug testing program, who is challenging his termination from a university job over allegations of bullying and sexual harassment, has been accused of threatening a musher just before the start of this year’s race — another black mark for the beleaguered ...

Becky Hammon may not have to wait too long for her opportunity to become a coaching pioneer.
Colorado State athletic director Joe Parker told Coloradoan.com that he is “not closing the door on any thought” as it relates to potential candidates. That would include possibly interviewing Hammon, ...

Three day care workers were arrested for allegedly administering melatonin-laced gummy bears to the 2-year-old children in their care in Illinois on Friday — a potentially dangerous decision.
“This is just a horrible case of bad judgment,” Des Plaines Police Chief William Kushner told CBS Chicago.
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